Fun American and World history trivia questions and answers.
- What part of North America made French its official language in
1976?
- What group of professionals did U.S. Gulf War troops nicknamed
"headaches"?
- How many U.S. states took part in the development or manufacture of
the B-2 bomber?
- What disastrous World War II retreat prompted Winston Churchill to
say: "Wars are not won by evacuations"?
- Who told Winston Churchill "that the French regard him as the
reincarnation of Joan of Arc"?
- What candidate told Pat Paulsen that his 100,000 write-in votes
probably put Nixon in the White House?
- What controversial form of cheap labor did Alabama return to the
work force in 1995, after a 30-year absence?
- What mobster's 1927 earnings would have amounted to $600 million in
1987 dollars?
- What captain did Fletcher Christian lead a mutiny against near
Tahiti in 1789?
- Who committed suicide two years after taking a stab at Julius
Caesar?
- What lord protector of England was not fond of his nicknames
""Almighty nose" and "Crum-Hell"?
- What type of ads were banned in 1971, costing TV networks $200
million?
- Who was stuck in the spacecraft while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
moon-walked?
- Who was barefoot in a beach trailer wearing a Ban-Lon shirt when
told the House was voting articles of impeachment against him?
- What archipelago lost an estimated one million of its citizens in
the war against Japan from 1941 to 1945?
- What was the largest number of living ex-presidents at one time?
- What vice president was less than thrilled to learn his adversaries
called him :Eggplant"?
- Who did Abu Bakr succeed as leader of the Muslims in the year 632?
- What nation's Catholics saw the Pope make a triumphant homecoming
visit in 1980?
- What Saudi Arabian city was the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad?
- What body part was most frequently covered with lard and roasted
over a fire as a torture during the Spanish inquisition?
- Whose 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in
India?
- What church did Henry VIII create when the Pope refused to give him
a divorce in 1534?
- What outfit did one of every six members of the American Communist
Party really work for, according to a former ACP member?
- What markswoman did Sitting Bull dub "Little Sure Shot?
- What Apollo 11 astronaut claimed he was the "first man to wet his
pants n the moon"?
- What Mississippi city's residents did not celebrate the Fourth of
July until 1945, after losing a Civil War battle in 1863?
- What was frontierswoman Martha Jane Burk better known as?
- What tragedy occurred two years to the day after the federal raid on
the Branch Davidian complex in Waco?
- What current branch of the U.S. military was a corp of only 50
soldiers when World War I broke out?
Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz # 147
- Quebec.
- Journalists.
- Fifty.
- Dunkirk.
- Charles de Gaulle.
- Hubert Humphrey.
- Chain gangs.
- Al Capone's.
- William Bligh.
- Brutus.
- Oliver Cromwell.
- Cigarette ads.
- Michael Collins.
- Richard Nixon.
- The Philippines.
- Five.
- Spiro Agnew.
- Muhammad.
- Poland's.
- Mecca.
- The foot.
- Salman Rushdie's.
- The Church of England.
- The FBI.
- Annie Oakley.
- Buzz Aldrin.
- Vicksburg's.
- Calamity Jane.
- The Oklahoma City bombing.
- The U.S. Air Force.
